National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5969
Original release date:11/17/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
CRLF injection vulnerability in the evalFolderLine function in fvwm 2.5.18 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via carriage returns in a directory name, which is not properly handled by fvwm-menu-directory, a variant of CVE-2003-1308.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (11/22/2006)
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Not vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 shipped with fvwm, however this issue does not affect the included version of fvwm.
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External Source: XF
Name: fvwm-evalfolderline-command-execution(30452)
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200611-17
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/x11-wm/fvwm/ChangeLog
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm.devel/2419/focus=2419
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23089
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22961